Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased identification and understanding between an organisation , its workers , neighbours and the public or allowing them to benefit from the activity , increases the understanding and acceptance of risk . |
| 2 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 3 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 4 | Is he the sort that he actually wants one , or has he bowed to the advisers that he 's got from the War Office and so on who say the soldiers need it ? |
| 5 | ‘ Not to play at soldiers with your men , or let them play in the band in the park on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 6 | By day we 'll offer to show you around the island or let you laze by the pool — the choice is yours . |
| 7 | Helmut Kohl 's calls to brief Major on the British economy are doubtless answered by a builder screaming at the German Chancellor to speak English , or ordering him to get off the line so they can deal with the other jobs they 've got on the go . |
| 8 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 9 | Some churches are happy to scatter the ashes in the graveyard or bury them according to the family 's wishes . |
| 10 | Chesarynth hoped all the secretaries were happily jacked in to some routine part of the system , or getting their jollies from the nerve-stimulators some of them were addicted to . |
| 11 | It can be used in either mono or stereo ; a guitar can be plugged in to access the onboard tuner and allow you to play along with a drum pattern ; it 's MIDI compatible , and with a Yamaha FC4 or FC5 footswitch you can start and stop the machine , tell it to drop in a fill pattern , or tell it to advance to the next pattern or song . |
| 12 | It can be used in either mono or stereo ; a guitar can be plugged in to access the onboard tuner and allow you to play along with a drum pattern ; it 's MIDI compatible , and with a Yamaha FC4 or FC5 footswitch you can start and stop the machine , tell it to drop in a fill pattern , or tell it to advance to the next pattern or song . |
| 13 | You have the choice of cleaning the Discs in position or removing them to wash in the sink . |
| 14 | The yew contains a mixture of poisonous compounds and only a chemist can extract anything good from it so people should n't eat or drink anything connected with the Yew tree . |
| 15 | It is also a requirement of health and safely legislation that no person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health , safety and welfare . |
| 16 | Article 9 places a duty on all persons , whether employers , employees , or self-employed , and states ‘ No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health , safety or welfare in pursuance of any of the relevant statutory provisions . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health , safety or welfare in pursuance of any of the relevant statutory provisions . ’ |
| 18 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 19 | Whatever people like Page may have felt or thought they felt about the Vietnam war , it is difficult not to regard them as much its victims as its predators . |
| 20 | Residents are now anxiously awaiting the decision which will either give Mappleton a future or condemn it to perish in the North Sea . |
| 21 | Do we have the constituencies as were before the additional six seats or do we continue with the constituencies with the additional seats . |
| 22 | When choosing say , a new fridge , do we worry about the power it uses compared with our existing model , or do we go for the one with the clever arrangement of shelves that gives plenty of room for the mineral water ? |
| 23 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 24 | Now do you tell me the story you had from Lady Usk , or do I go to the old witch myself ? ’ |
| 25 | Yes that 's what I was gon na ask you do you arrive early morning or do you move in the Sunday night . |
| 26 | Or do you believe in the act of Going to Church ? |
| 27 | Theodora was faced with the usual dilemma of such contrivances , did one hammer on the outer door ( there seemed to be no bell ) and risk not being heard or did one penetrate to the inner door proper and risk being judged intrusive ? |
| 28 | You see this thing did you buy this separately or did it come in the Walkman ? |
| 29 | Did you go to the sort of school where it was made easy to go into science , or did you go to the sort of school where nice girls did the arts or something quite different ? |
| 30 | When he pulls himself up or corrects his placing or step he beams on the audience as , for example , when he finishes with his back after a pirouette and hastily turns to face them . |